Comment Submitted to the Protfolio Committee on Trade and Industry by Wikimedia ZA President Douglas Scott Excerpt: We make this submission to request that the current South African law be amended to protect the right of FoP, namely the right to…
Click here for the full comment (PDF) Excerpt: This comment presents results of ongoing research on copyright limitations being conducted by American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP). The research demonstrates that positive…
[Printable PDF of this Comment] The Library Copyright Alliance (“LCA”) consists of three major library associations in the United States: the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries. These associations represent…
Click here for the full submission (PDF) Excerpt: Filmmakers support the added detail that the 2017 bill gives to what is currently a “fair dealing” exception, now proposed to be called “fair use.” Much that is in the proposed fair use…
Internet Association Press Release, June 29, 2017. Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) Today, Internet Association released a new analysis that found reducing intermediary liability safe harbor protections would cost the U.S. 4.25 million jobs and reduce GDP by nearly half a trillion dollars…
Supreme Court Adopts Wink-Wink Patent Utility Rule In a stunning reversal of policy, on June 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned decades of precedent making it easier for the biopharmaceutical industry to gain patents on medicines without any…
[Reposted from MichaelGeist.ca, Link (CC-BY)] The Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated Google v. Equustek decision today, upholding the validity of an injunction requiring Google to remove search results on an international basis. The 7-2 decision (Justices Côté and…
[Mitch Stoltz, EFF Deeplinks Blog, Link, (CC-BY)] The U.S. Copyright Office just released a long-awaited report about Section 1201, the law that bans circumventing digital restrictions on copyrighted works. Despite years of evidence that the social costs of the law…
Tomasz Kasprzak, Olga Jurkowska, Alek Tarkowski and Anna Buchner Communia Association (CC-0) | Full Report (PDF) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We asked thirty teachers from five European countries about copyright in schools. Our respondents included teachers implementing education innovations and actively using new…
Delia Browne, University of Auckland The Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (the Bill) was passed on Thursday 15 June 2017 and will become law sometime in late December this year (six months from Royal Assent) See here for a copy of the Bill. See here for a copy of…
Today’s New York Times features a story on a leaked draft outline the Trump Administration’s upcoming Executive Order on drug pricing. According to the Times, “the document directs the United States trade representative to conduct a study of price differences…
All over the world, copyright regimes have figured out how to write exceptions that don’t hurt the market for creators’ work but permit new work to be made without strangling costs. But Australia has one of the most rigid copyright…